Kabul: Taliban deny any agreement with Turkey, Qatar on Kabul airport

Kabul, Dec 26:  The Taliban (under UN sanctions for terrorism) denied that a deal had been reached with Qatar and Turkey that would allow the two to jointly run airports in Kabul and other Afghan cities.
The Turkish state news agency Anadolu said earlier in the day that joint technical groups would meet in the coming days to lay out details of how they planned to operate Afghanistan’s five international airports.
Imamuddin Ahmadi, a Taliban transport ministry spokesman, was cited as saying by the Tolo News agency hours later that no final agreement had been reached after negotiators from the two countries met with Talibs on Thursday.

It was reported earlier the parties held “productive and effective” negotiations during which they agreed to create technical groups to work on details of the operations in the coming days, the Anadolu news agency reported on Friday, citing its sources.
“Doha and Ankara have agreed to jointly operate Kabul International Airport,” the sources told Anadolu.